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"NEW STATESMAN" SPECULATES OVER ATTACK ON TROTSKYISM |
The Moscow correspondent of the London New Statesman [November 1] writes that government circles there believe that recent moves by Peking may indicate the beginning of an effort to bring left-wing unions and socialist-minded revolutionists together on an international scale, To block this, Moscow has issued a call for action. This is the real meaning of the latest "Kommunist onslaught,"
"One of the fields in which Moscow wants urgent action taken is that of the international trade union movement," writes the New Statesman'ts correspondent, "The various proposals for an Afro-Asian Grade union con= ference independent of the WFIU tWworla Federation of Trade Unions], which are coming mainly from Indonesian trade union centres, are attributed here to the hand of Peking. <A vigorous effort is being made to ensure the principle of universality in international left-wing trade union organisa~ tions, for the danger in a combination of what they call here Chinese chauvinism and racism with the adventuristic idea Mao is accused of taking over from Trotsky is not underestimated in Moscow, Readers of Soviet political literature are, thanks to Mao, learning a good deal more about the activities of the Trotskyist Fourth International and even of the theories of Trotskyists than has appeared in the press here for many years. And they are being told that the Chinese threat to the Communist movement ‘was the gravest one that it had faced since Trotskyism.
“Whether the Kommunist article is to be considered any kind of pre- _ dude for a world meeting of parties still remains a matter of speculation, Soviet sources continue to discourage such speculation, arguing that more harm might be done by providing Peking with a platform in Moscow than by leaving the Chinese communists in isolation,"
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